ING Investment Management International has announced two senior appointments to its Emerging Market Equity team. Ashish Goyal has been appointed Head of the Emerging Market Equity (EME) team and Robert Holmes joins as Senior Portfolio Manager Emerging Market Equities.
Ashish Goyal joins as of 1 October and will be tasked with expanding ING IM’s EME capacity and capabilities. He will be based in Singapore and report to Eric Siegloff, Deputy Chief Investment Officer. Ashish joins ING IM from Eastspring Investments (formerly Prudential Asset Management). Over the past 20 years he has held positions including Investment Director Asia Equity, Chief Investment Officer Asia and GEM Equities, Head of Asian Equities and Analyst/Portfolio Manager.
Robert Holmes will join ING IM in early September and report to Ashish. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of EME. Over the past 10 years, he worked as a specialist fund manager in EMEA and before that held various positions – including management roles – covering institutional sales and proprietary trading on the equity brokerage side.
Robert joins ING IM from Griffin Capital Management, where he worked as a fund manager for the past seven years. Based in London, he will take responsibility for ING IM’s Emerging Europe strategies.
Eric Siegloff, Deputy Chief Investment Officer at ING IM: “We’re very pleased to welcome these talented investors to ING IM. Both Ashish and Robert have excellent track records and these appointments give us the opportunity to further strengthen our Emerging Market Equity capabilities.”